How can employees be motivated and inspired to be more productive, more creative and engaged. It takes a more concerted effort by managers and organizations working from a strategic plan. See on Scoop.it – Mid-Week Mentor See on blogbysuchitra.wordpress.com Continue reading
A recent Gallup study shows that a significant number of Americans are very dissatisfied with their job. The 2013 State of the American Workplace Report 2013 shows 30 percent of employees are engaged and inspired at work. Gallup surveyed more than 150,000 full- and part-time workers during 2012. That’s up from 28 percent in 2010. … Continue reading
Life seems so complicated, so challenging, so competitive today. Too fast. Too furious. And, frankly, it is. As we stumble towards Singularity, much evolves and with evolution comes rapid technology transitions, societal upheavals, climate change, political unrest, economic uncertainty, career anxiety and a tremendous amount of apathy. All this contributes to friction. In physics, it … Continue reading
I’ve been re-reading OUTLIERS, Malcolm Gladwell’s insightful book on what makes some successful. Specifically, I am focused on the chapter about Bill Joy. Bill is the quiet genius, the computer wizard who almost solely masterminded UNIX. His cerebral fingerprints are inside all computers. He twisted the coils of DNA of the Internet. Today, Joy is … Continue reading
I have my doubts. #Engineers, #economists and “futurists” jump in. This article is pretty good, but there are a lot of “if” in the contention that a more leisurely world is ahead of us. “In 2011, Chinese companies spent ¥8 billion ($1.3 billion) on industrial robots. Foxconn, which build iPads for Apple, hopes to have … Continue reading
Douglas Arnold, Executive Coaching 